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Ecology and population studies of some intertidal and sublittoral sand-dwelling amphipods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. A. Fincham
A. A. Fincham
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man
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INTRODUCTION

Certain sand-dwelling amphipods occur either in the intertidal or in the sublittoral zone and extreme low-water springs (E.L.W.S.) has been taken as a convenient dividing line between these two habitats. Previous workers have concentrated mainly on one or other of these contiguous regions. General studies of the in-fauna of intertidal sand on the Isle of Man include those of Pirrie, Bruce & Moore (1932), Jones (1948) and Southward (1953). The in-fauna of sublittoral sandy deposits around the Isle of Man has been studied by Jones (1940, 1951, 1956) and Fincham (1969a). However, Mclntyre & Eleftheriou (1968) working at Firemore Bay, Loch Ewe showed that the intertidal and shallow-water sand regions should be regarded as a unit. Faunal distributions were not always discontinuous about E.L.W.S.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 1971 , pp. 471 - 488
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1971

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